Daniel Vilar, Honda coach: “The difference between moto 2 and moto GP is the bigger difference between motorcycles and cars”

Honda driver Joan Mir was not very lucky during the French GP in Le Mans. The thirteenth xiro ended with a polo chan in the eighth turn. You have a job ahead of you or be the world champion in Moto GP 2020. The goal is to bring back the world championship. For iso, have a team behind you that studies the smallest detail every weekend in order to get on the podium. Among them is Daniel Vilar (A Capela, 1992), an aeronautical engineer who managed to combine his passion for sports with his profession.

After finishing his career in Madrid, he decided to extend his academic life a little more. “Selling an advertisement from the Masters in Engineering competition in Barcelona, ​​sponsored by Repsol, I decided to apply. They wanted to try it and see if they could really mix the two paixóns,” explains Daniel. I loved it so much that I ended up winning the best file award. Recognition that is open to the labor market, fulfilling the goal of unifying sports and data analysis.

Employed one at the same school that taught the Masters to work in the karting team as a data engineer and also in the car team of his own organization.

This is where the story of Daniel began in the motor world. “A year and a half later, I got the opportunity to work on motorcycle 2 in the Pons Racing team. That’s where they needed a telemeter. Din or the jump from car to motorcycle, but I went from a championship at European level to being out of the world,” says Villar. His World Cup debut was at Le Mans, with Fabio Quartarara. “Carreira a carrera funme ostati “I liked my way of working. I finished the season and I’m looking for more days with the pilot Lorenzo Baldassarri,” he says.

Jump into Moto GP

Three years later, a new opportunity called Daniel’s door. The VR46 moto 2 team, with Luca Marini, the brother of Valentino Rossi, headed to his next stop. “It was a challenge to change the team. His project was very beautiful and ambitious. It was the year of covid, we were second in the World Championship, six points behind the race win. It was a year of victories, very fun and exciting,” he recalls.

Luca Marini then moved to Moto GP, so Daniel started working for the team’s debutant, Celestino Vietti. “We colored it to adapt it to the category. It was a brutal experience. You have to learn, and together we grow and achieve results. In the last races of the year, we recorded two fourth places and were second at the last test in Valencia,” he admits.

The biggest change in Dani Chegou’s life is the jump to Moto GP. De novo, as Luca Marini’s manager. “The difference between Moto 2 and Moto GP is bigger than moving from motorcycles to cars. The category has an electronic level of engineering behind it, with beastly complexity. It was a year not that I learned a lot and not that I had to live moments of tension and very hard work, so that I could adapt and be at the level of other colleagues”, he recounts.

A few days ago last season, Honda contacted Daniel. “They needed a comma or meu profile. Having the opportunity to be on the factory team was an experience I wanted to have. The opportunity to work in two of the best teams in the world, with different mentalities, was something I didn’t want to miss,” says Daniel.

“Not only pilots will compete, we will all go. We are a team,” he explains.

Or that Dani Vilar lives during the Moto GP Grand Prix is ​​an indescribable case. “It’s hard to explain,” he admits. Iso in the song feelings. In the singing functions, I am very clear. «I have to prepare certain configurations of the motorcycle, such as the preparation of the engine brake or the delivery of the power it gives on every meter of the track. We have divided the track into different areas and are still configuring different parts of the track. On my show, when the pilot arrives and tell me about your feelings, problems or what’s stopping you from going faster. We take that data, analyze it and see if what the pilot is telling us matches what we’re seeing in both sensors, then we make changes to the electronic configuration so we can get out on the track and try to help him solve any problems he has so they can go faster,” he explains. .

A job that is not self-confidence as a pilot is the fundamental basis for completion or success. “That is one of the most important things. You have to trust the people in your car to be able to go out on the track and push to lose two tenths. The differences are minimal and almost everything is in grella in less than a second. A better two-tenths is enough to jump from ten poles, and for a pilot to take risks, you have to be sure, not what you say. It’s one of the most important keys to making things work. You work as a team,” he says.

Despite more than 120 hours of work in less than four months and despite being away from home for several days, Daniel enjoys his work to the maximum. Don’t think about anything other than continuing to study and be clear: “This is not the best place for it.”